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"Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words."
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"There are poets,there are philosophers, there are spiritualists and me. I try to foot the bill of these mighty three."
"I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down."
"Words make known. But we live in the unknown."
"There are many things which can not be expressed by words. There are many words which can not be spelled by human tongue. There are many tongues which utter one single truth."
"Hunger is a wayOf standing outside windowsThe entering takes away."
"Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic."
"Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless."
"The truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."
"When your speaking style is clear, confident, and concise, your listeners will perceive you as such."
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"Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed."
"Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don't. They don't care what he said. They listens because of what he is."
"Perhaps they were right in putting love into books... Perhaps it could not live anywhere else."
"Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid."
"Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar. Man the sum of his climatic experiences Father said. Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire."
"I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time."
"He got off on Lincoln and slavery and dared any man there to deny that Lincoln and the negro and Moses and the children of Israel were the same, and that the Red Sea was just the blood that had to be spilled in order that the black race might cross into the Promised Land."
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